Quote Originally Posted by Shipp View Post
Exactly. If the game had actually included basic and standard features for MMOs, reviewers wouldn't feel the need to point out the complete lack of basic and standard features for MMOs. It's like... logic.

Review sites didn't have to nit-pick, nor did they have too search very long to find something to slam, considering this game was just asking to be slammed when it launched. Jumping was just one more prime example of SE deciding to be unique for the sake of uniqueness instead of adding a feature that is now standard for the genre. You don't decide to be unique for the sake of being unique. You decide to be unique when you are presented with a unique idea that sounds really interesting and possibly able to progress the genre out of this stagnation. Such as the active combat in upcoming MMOs.
Exactly. ( ) People want FFXIV to be unique. They don't want it to be like other MMOs out there, which is understandable. However, some people think that "unique" is making a list of standard MMO features and subtracting from that list instead of adding. "Global standard" comes up frequently when Yoshi-P talks about 2.0, I am sure he figures just as well that you can be your own game while at the same time having standard features, his plan seems to be building off of them and making them unique to this game.

I will say it again, though, as a note to others. There are people here on these forums that claim to be huge fans of the Final Fantasy series who say jumping and swimming will break the game and it won't be a Final Fantasy anymore. If you think that adding these things will ruin the Final Fantasy magic, you aren't a fan at all. Also, another repeat, swimming was in Final Fantasy X, along with underwater monster battles. Thanks.